actually I think todd said 50 CD2's and maybe 25 CD1's. unfortunately as great as they are they just didn't get a huge following.

Which is a huge shame and still makes me scratch my head. Orion sells his watches for $1500 and Oak and Oscar for even more but Aegir could barely move them. I guess you have to make friends with everyone and be on every Facebook group etc etc to sell the watch instead of just having an amazing product.

actually I think todd said 50 CD2's and maybe 25 CD1's. unfortunately as great as they are they just didn't get a huge following.

Which is a huge shame and still makes me scratch my head. Orion sells his watches for $1500 and Oak and Oscar for even more but Aegir could barely move them. I guess you have to make friends with everyone and be on every Facebook group etc etc to sell the watch instead of just having an amazing product.

I have to agree. The CD1 meets it’s design goals perfectly. I wear mine in the Gulf all the time but also to business meetings. It keeps great time and feels good on my wrist. I will say this though, while his following may not have been large, it was rabid. And the back story is great. I was heavily invested in Sinn when I first learned of Aegir (from this forum) and now own no Sinns but wouldn’t take for my Aegir.

Off topic a bit and maybe not appropriate but Todd mentions that a serious diving accident laid him up for a period which allowed for the development of the watch but I have never seen details about the accident. Can anyone comment?

Nm7273 wrote:I have to agree. The CD1 meets it’s design goals perfectly. I wear mine in the Gulf all the time but also to business meetings. It keeps great time and feels good on my wrist. I will say this though, while his following may not have been large, it was rabid. And the back story is great. I was heavily invested in Sinn when I first learned of Aegir (from this forum) and now own no Sinns but wouldn’t take for my Aegir.

So Aegir is the Pantera of the watch world.

Maybe this is obscure, so I’ll explain that Pantera is a metal band with a hard core but not very large following.

Nm7273 wrote:I have to agree. The CD1 meets it’s design goals perfectly. I wear mine in the Gulf all the time but also to business meetings. It keeps great time and feels good on my wrist. I will say this though, while his following may not have been large, it was rabid. And the back story is great. I was heavily invested in Sinn when I first learned of Aegir (from this forum) and now own no Sinns but wouldn’t take for my Aegir.

So Aegir is the Pantera of the watch world.

Maybe this is obscure, so I’ll explain that Pantera is a metal band with a hard core but not very large following.

I feel like Pantera was kinda huge in their day. Cemetery Gates, Walk, Five Minutes Alone, Shedding Skin...great fucking songs.

Off topic a bit and maybe not appropriate but Todd mentions that a serious diving accident laid him up for a period which allowed for the development of the watch but I have never seen details about the accident. Can anyone comment?

I don't know exactly. I think he got hurt and couldn't dive again. Then I think he became the diving safety officer maybe? But worked on the watch during that time.

Being a microbrand wasn't as easy then either. There weren't a ton of good manufactures, and the ones that were reported good were a pain in the ass to deal with. So there was a ton of challenges i gather. But he built the watches he wanted to build.

Nm7273 wrote:I have to agree. The CD1 meets it’s design goals perfectly. I wear mine in the Gulf all the time but also to business meetings. It keeps great time and feels good on my wrist. I will say this though, while his following may not have been large, it was rabid. And the back story is great. I was heavily invested in Sinn when I first learned of Aegir (from this forum) and now own no Sinns but wouldn’t take for my Aegir.

So Aegir is the Pantera of the watch world.

Maybe this is obscure, so I’ll explain that Pantera is a metal band with a hard core but not very large following.

I feel like Pantera was kinda huge in their day. Cemetery Gates, Walk, Five Minutes Alone, Shedding Skin...great fucking songs.

Would have never thought they were huge but then again I’m perpetually stuck in the 80’s

Back in the day, the CD1/2 were relatively expensive for a micro. These days they wouldn't be when compared to the pricing of some of the other brands like Monta, Resco, Oak & Oscar, etc. Perhaps the market wasn't quite ready yet for Aegir at the time.

Chocodove wrote:Back in the day, the CD1/2 were relatively expensive for a micro. These days they wouldn't be when compared to the pricing of some of the other brands like Monta, Resco, Oak & Oscar, etc. Perhaps the market wasn't quite ready yet for Aegir at the time.

I have no idea what Todd’s plans are, but while I know he was always against it, maybe he could take it to Asia and get a new CD-1 and the newer model he was working on (SD-2?) and bring them out for $1000 or slightly under.

Off topic a bit and maybe not appropriate but Todd mentions that a serious diving accident laid him up for a period which allowed for the development of the watch but I have never seen details about the accident. Can anyone comment?

Off topic a bit and maybe not appropriate but Todd mentions that a serious diving accident laid him up for a period which allowed for the development of the watch but I have never seen details about the accident. Can anyone comment?

I don't know exactly. I think he got hurt and couldn't dive again. Then I think he became the diving safety officer maybe? But worked on the watch during that time.

Being a microbrand wasn't as easy then either. There weren't a ton of good manufactures, and the ones that were reported good were a pain in the ass to deal with. So there was a ton of challenges i gather. But he built the watches he wanted to build.

Changed to Deck Foreman a year after the accident, then stupidly decided to do a job in Libya that was 200m deep as a diver, and the injuries that I did have, became very obvious and I had to deco out of that system, finishing my career then and there. Came back to Australia after that and tried the diving companies for work, but they would only hire me as a ''Diver'' so I decided to quit to the whole thing and go back to the mines where I started out of school. Now I am busy driving an excavator, and trying to become a CNC machinist in my off time, so Aegir can continue, as the funds are no longer there to do it the way I was doing it.

Chocodove wrote:Back in the day, the CD1/2 were relatively expensive for a micro. These days they wouldn't be when compared to the pricing of some of the other brands like Monta, Resco, Oak & Oscar, etc. Perhaps the market wasn't quite ready yet for Aegir at the time.

I have no idea what Todd’s plans are, but while I know he was always against it, maybe he could take it to Asia and get a new CD-1 and the newer model he was working on (SD-2?) and bring them out for $1000 or slightly under.

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Can't bring myself to do it. I have been busy with life lately and things in the watch world have taken a back seat, but I did produce a CD-1 ,iddle case on my current CNC mill. It needs some tweaks to be fair, but it is 98% there.
Went out on strike with the rest of the workforce, costing me 3 months pay, and bought a new house which is a struggle to pay for, until my other house sells. I am not giving up just yet, but things are happening at a very very slow pace, as I simply do not have the money to throw at it anymore.